• Top UK lawyer hits out at ‘authoritarian’ attacks on legal profession

    Top UK lawyer hits out at ‘authoritarian’  attacks on legal profession
    Exclusive: Respect for law being undermined by ‘disparagement of lawyers and judges’, says Helena KennedyA leading British lawyer has compared UK government attacks on the profession to the tactics used by authoritarian regimes.Helena Kennedy KC, one of the UK’s most renowned criminal lawyers and a Labour peer, said ministers were deliberately creating scapegoats. Continue reading...

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